Within Purity: The Inner Wash

Neville's Inner Vision

Your purification is not a ceremony outside you, but a conversion of consciousness. The cry 'wash' is an instruction to assume you are already clean; to put away the old self is to revise it in your imagination. Cease to do evil by refusing to entertain it in your mind; learn to do well by rehearsing justice, relief of the oppressed, and care for the vulnerable as your inner standard. When you meet the command 'let us reason together,' hear it as an invitation to dialogue with the I AM, the awareness that you are. In that inner court you audit past belief systems and forgive with a confident assumption that their effects fade into whiteness. Sins as scarlet become white as snow when consciousness chooses the higher state. Do not seek it in outward acts alone; see it first in you, decide it, and feel it real until your world is reshaped to match.